Marxism made Simple

‘Fundamental principle of the way of life’

As I stand with my rock pick in one hand, the ancient sediments stand before me. Encrusted in the layering, fossils come rarely. As I hold an ammonite around 250 million years old, my head spirals into a time warp. Gazing around I struggle to imagine the earth’s beauty, that this once innocent creature lived upon. All in a matter of seconds it easily crumbles into dust, only to blow away to create some other life force. Delicately as it does, it only represents the embellishment of our life, the life which will slow decay and crumble before ones eyes, when the peak oil displays itself. Fossil hunting gives me that brief but extensive feeling of connection with nature, removing me from the chaos embedded in the world around me.

 Life as we know it today couldn’t have been imagined without the processes which undertook 100’s of million years before the dinosaurs. Us complex humans, live in a complex society, which began from simple single celled organisms, phytoplankton and algae. The beginnings of our modern, technologically advanced civilisation all derived from one daring to drill a whole into the earth 150years ago, to profoundly discover the birth of the future, or was it?

Looking around today I see limitless potential for a sustainable, environmentally friendly world. Yet, we refuse to take charge and demand change. Oil the blood force. The profit making, ‘‘quick buck’’, attitude which we humans are controlled by. I had never known about this new sustainable alternative. I grew to learn about its greatness for the future of our lives and generations to come. They called it ‘Biodiesel’. Vegetable oil it’s known as. Intrigued by the proposed advantages of this alternative, I was to discover its essence could easily fill our technological world, with no adverse effects on the environment. No changes needed. All but one, the mind of the people, to stand up and demand for this clean biodiesel, to reverse the pollutants and wars oil has brought to our world. Biodiesel is capable of running in all diesel engines; the engine created by a German man in 1892, was a revolutionary and highly efficient new design. His idea was to allow farmers to have a readily available source of fuel, grown on their land, removing the power from evil profit making corporations and putting it in the hands of the average man or lady. Easily made from domestically produced crops, for instance, soybean, rapeseed and sunflower, it can be stored in the same environmental conditions as petroleum diesel. Handling and transporting of biodiesel is safe, as any spills would not be hazardous for the environment or people, as its biodegradable. The biodiesel has a high flash point, unlike petroleum diesel; its lower temperature could form an ignitable mixture in the air. 

 On the evening of 29^th September 1913, the engine developed for environmental purposes was all to float ashore, along with Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel’s floating lifeless body. All around me, my senses create havoc inside of me; the world could have been so dramatically different. People assimilate society’s corruption by conceptualizing the hidden propaganda in media. The power lies in the people, but the people have no power. They choose to be brainwashed, mind mashed and crippled. Humans, for over 12,000 years have always chosen to develop complexity to solve complexity. With complexity follows resource consumption. I myself know I once would have rather not increased the cost of daily life without having a clear benefit display itself. Effort, time, money, or just plain annoyance, these are the common factors which prevent change. Identifying the existence of these factors and effectively removing them will cause a dramatic halt in suffering that prevails throughout society. This suffering displayed in the locations of the OPEC countries where oil derives from. Bareness prevails throughout the green lush hills, above the sedimentary rocks and looking over the vastly stretched blue ocean. I can only wonder why no one else has thought of growing crops to produce biodiesel, with no environmental costs as well as benefiting the economy, you could only ask, ‘why not?’ The relationship we have between complexity and resources prevents the development of sustainability, as the complexity transpires throughout society, often in advance of sustainability.  

            At a life-threatening rate we are causing global warming, our sea levels are rising, ice caps are melting, and weather patterns are changing. All this harm presented but for what? I stand frozenly still, looking out to the ocean. If everyone together prevented greenhouse gases from pouring into our environment from burning fossil fuels, then I would not be drowning in water. We can change now, what are we waiting for? A fuel that burns cleaner, that doesn’t pour out cancer causing chemicals into our atmosphere, is nontoxic and biodegradable, costing cheaper than gas? We have it, and we have it now! Our world would be smiling; our future generations would be smiling and we will be smiling. 

''The origins of sexual inequality''

               From the moment we are born we are given a ‘name’, beginning the process of the growth of the human’s ego. We are showered in baby gifts ‘pink’ for girls and ‘blue’ for boys, starting the first stages of separation between female and male. We are brought up to believe women are to express their emotions to show their feminine side, while males are to maintain control of their emotional side. This defined partition between genders, eliminates unity between females and males. The social aspects in life which one may have, is all decided upon ones sex. Words used to characterize women and men result in brain chemistry changes, causing one to act a certain way in response, environment, sounds, visions, feelings are all factors in the bonding processes between women and men. These developed attitudes between sexes draw a line in the middle of women and men and make boundaries apparent. A group of men would act differently if no women were to be present, then if women were included. This would also be distinct in a group of females and males were to be introduced. Media plays a huge role in gender, displaying how each sex should act and how they should respond in different circumstances. Superficial, artificial, awkward, insincere are just some of the descriptive words which can be seen impersonated in social realms. Marriage is a key portrayal of women’s place in society, with the aspect of marriage under the beliefs; it should be the father who gives away the daughter to the waiting to be groom down the end of the aisle. This may seem to be a lovely gesture of the father letting his once baby daughter go, but it represents a social medial in which women are seen as the weaker gender and in need of confirmation from their father, to accept they have made the righteous decision. You wouldn’t hear of the mother leading her once baby son down the aisle to the waiting to be wife, now would you?

               Females and males are sought upon as the two differentiated sexes, due to the different developments between males and females, in the particular zygote (fertilized egg). Development of females and males cultivate from zygotes into fetuses, continuing on until they reach adults. Sex differences can be applied by many specific genes, hormones, anatomy or social learning. Gender differences in the development of identity, are by both biological and social factors. Modification or mutilations are usually permitted by adults when the child is born, either to operate on the girl if an oversized clitoris is present or the male being circumcised. Depending on social acceptance in cultures the ‘third gender or more’ tend to be segregated in populations due to their physical differences or social category. Some cultures see the ‘third gender’ as addition to female or males, the ‘third gender’ representing neuter. The societal views the majority hold today define weather another gender would be accepted or disclosed. Biologically our species as ‘Homo-sapiens’ is only been interpreted with the two sexes female and male for simplicity values as to have other sexes would complicate societal adaptations. Hijras of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan all respectively accept the ‘third gender’, along with Fa’afafine of Polynesia and sworn virgins of the Balkans, all having a description to describe their gender differences. These examples are culturally accepted as biological differences, either males who take on a feminine gender or sexual role or visa-versa.

               A 2004 review in ‘Nature Reviews Neuroscience’ observed that "because it is easier to manipulate hormone levels than the expression of sex chromosome genes, the effects of hormones have been studied much more extensively, and are much better understood, than the direct actions in the brain of sex chromosome genes." It concluded that while "the differentiating effects of gonadal secretions seem to be dominant," the existing body of research "support the idea that sex differences in neural expression of X and Y genes significantly contribute to sex differences in brain functions and disease. Genes, hormones and the behaviour of adult individuals tend to perpetrate the formation of human brains before birth; genes coded for male and female brains are identified in the transcription of the PCDH11X/Y gene pair unique to Homo sapiens, defining sexes.